Chapter 260 The road ahead

The so-called Tao is different and they do not plan for each other. Only then did Ma Cheng realize the true meaning of this. The scholars of the Ming Dynasty regarded themselves very highly, and a military man of their own family had no common language. These literati and scholars looked down on even the playboys such as Fang Shihong, so scholars were

Scholars, the people are the people, and warriors are the people. The various classes of the Ming Dynasty were very strict, and I really had a deep understanding of them. Do warriors want to make friends with scholars? They are crazy.

A warrior is a warrior, and a literati is a literati. It is clear that the well water does not interfere with the river.

There are also people who never interact with each other when civil and military officials die. The Ming Dynasty system determined that literati had huge power and occupied huge social resources. This was also a means for Zhu Yuanzhang to establish the "eight-legged essays to win scholars" in order to control the elites of the country. However,

Literati formed political groups based on the relationship between local, clan, and master-apprentice. If the emperor is abolished and the people are exploited, the dynasty will quickly decline.

The factory and guard system is precisely the sword to check and balance the literati and bureaucratic group. It is precisely because of this that feudal literati hate such spy agencies. Feudal literati have all the right to speak in ancient times. If they want to mess with a group of people, there will be no one.

It can be stopped. In other words, whether it is an emperor or a factory guard, people's behavior must conform to the values ​​of literati, otherwise it will be a rebellion against the truth.

The right to speak is really terrible, and scholars have a loud voice.

Ma Cheng wanted to enlighten the people in the Ming Dynasty, and sighed, and the journey was long and loud, but he still had to start with little things.

As for the tax chaos in Jiangnan, it was expected and it was impossible to hurry up. Take it slowly. This is the social change.

The Ming Dynasty in the second year of Tianqi was already terminally ill, almost unable to reach the point of medicine and stones, and the road ahead was long, so it was not possible to revive the Emperor Ming with an invincible army.

Yangzhou's prosperity is full of salt, which is a historical and true summary. The prosperity of the salt industry has promoted the development of Yangzhou cities. The decline of the salt industry has also declined. The salt industry has also become the salt industry and the salt industry has declined.

, One prospers and one loses together. Yangzhou was a prosperous place in ancient times. Isn’t there such a saying, “I have a hundred thousand chunks of money and ride a crane to Yangzhou”. A canal connects the route between the city and the capital, so it brings a

The prosperity of the series.

At this time, Macheng remembered Wei Xiaobao in the Deer and Cauldron. He was also from Yangzhou and went to the capital along the river. The canal runs through the city like blood. The core of ancient Yangzhou was Kuaiji, which is now Shaoxing, where China

The most beautiful scenery in the southeast is in the prosperous Jiuxiang Shibaqu. With a peerless beauty like Liu Zihua, Ma Cheng naturally couldn't be interested in the vulgar powder selling laughter along the street.

Nine alleys and eighteen curves, the winding and secluded, the deep part is the gentle land, and the gentle land is also the heroic tomb.

The beauty beside her looked a little confused. After asking, she realized that this deep alley with nine curves and eighteen curves was the place where she grew up. Before she was eight years old, she lived in this fireworks alley, which made people shine.

Ma Cheng remembered a sentence, "The mud is not stained, and the green lotus is not charming. These three beautiful women also had a sad past when they were young. Ma Cheng looked over her eyes and saw a man who was rubbing rouge and powder.

Half-old Xu's mother knew that she was most likely her adoptive mother.

Just as she was about to ask a question, Liu Zihua sighed: "Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, all have their own ways of living. It would be nice to have such a peaceful life."

Ma Cheng smiled and walked slowly with her in his arms. The beauty gradually leaned over and looked confused. She didn't know how much memory she had left when she was eight years old.

At night, Chang's manor, a book printing workshop.

This workshop is connected to a back garden, just by the Qinglong River, not far from the Narcissus Temple, and there are ten large tiled houses. The shopkeeper Chang Da accompanied an old official from the county house. This old official is here to estimate the Chang family.

How valuable is this printing workshop? When you look at it, you will ask. The craftsmen hired by the book shop are divided into writers, engravers and printers. There are one writer, twelve engravers and six printers in Chang's book shop.

There are also two handymen, and this scale can only be considered a small book shop.

The shopkeeper Chang received instructions from Ma Cheng to buy this small book shop and renamed it "Hanshe Bookstore".

Hanshe is the first step for Macheng to come up with the wisdom of the people. Although it is only a small step, it is of great significance. This is the first step for the sober people of the Emperor and Ming Dynasty to open up the wisdom of the people and compete with the old-school literati for the right to speak.

The old official gave Chang's book shop real estate. The existing engravings and the pear wood and paper used for engravings are estimated to be 1,200 taels of silver. This should be overestimated. Ma Cheng didn't care, so he just took 1,000 taels of silver according to the Chang family.

Two hundred taels of silver invested in Hanshe Bookstore, ten taels of silver each, that is one hundred and twenty shares.

There was no one around, and the shopkeeper Chang smiled and said, "The villain paid another 800 taels of silver to make up two hundred shares."

Ma Cheng accepted it with a smile and opened the Han Society from Kaiyuan, Jizhou to Jiangnan, and it was inevitable that it would set up a bookstore to publish publications to expand its influence. Now the Jiangnan factory and the special security personnel are being rampant, and the special demolition of academies in various places is being demolished, which is what Han

A god-given opportunity for the development of the society in Jiangnan. Although this Ming version of the Renaissance was difficult and hit a wall everywhere, Ma Cheng firmly believed that one day it would become mainstream. How could he emancipate his mind without the Renaissance?

There are precedents in Europe. The Catholic theocracy's status and hypocritical asceticism of the Renaissance in Europe coincide with the idea of ​​Macheng. Europeans expressed their opinions based on the culture of ancient Rome and ancient Greece, while Macheng's idea was to destroy.

The Han and Tang culture broke the monopoly of Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism on culture. This was the reason why the eunuch party was rampant during the Tianqi period, which gave us such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Ma Cheng planned to launch a vigorous Renaissance in this lifeless but drunken and dream-ridden Ming Dynasty, the capital, and the prosperous land of Jiangnan. If this was done in the Wanli Dynasty and Chongzhen Dynasty, it would probably die and even the graves grew grass.

But in this Tianqi Dynasty, everything is possible.

Liu Zihua arrived in Jiangnan and lived in the comfortable Chang Manor, but he didn't like to move. He just invited a mysterious guest and said he wanted to invest in the bookstore. The mysterious guest paid 500 taels of silver to participate in the Hanshe Bookstore, and then won over by Changda's shopkeeper.

A few Shanxi scholars and talented men gathered 10,000 yuan in shares and waited for the opening.

Ma Cheng looked at the engraver sitting in front of the door and asked, "How many words can this engraver engrave in a day?"

The engraver with a frosty face said, "It depends on what font is engraved. If you want to engrave the fonts of Yan, Liu, Ou, and Zhao, it would be slow. You can only engrave a hundred words a day, but if it is ordinary

Song style characters, also called marshal. Although this font is not very beautiful, the strokes are horizontal and vertical, making it easier to cut the knife. A skilled craftsman can carve more than 200 characters a day. My calligraphy worker here can only write Song style characters. If you want to hire

The ICBC is not low for the calligraphy writer who is good at regular script."

Ma Chengran said with relief: "Is movable type printing difficult to apply? Why does the bookstore still use carved versions?"

The engraver replied honestly: "The cost of movable type is high, and it is not easy to type, so printing is more convenient to be printed in a small amount."

Ma Cheng nodded, thinking that this is just learning until old age. The clay movable type is useless and the copper movable type is too expensive. It is still used for the time being. It took more than a thousand years to carve and print it until the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

It can be seen that it is still very convenient to be eliminated by the Western printing of lead type. The popularization of every advanced technology is not something that can be done by touching the mouth. It also requires consideration of the cost, the limitations of the times, etc.

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Just like the Western breastplate is not suitable for the Ming army, whether it is R&D cost or large-scale manufacturing investment, it requires a lot of manpower and material resources, which is not worth the loss. The breastplate's arc defense ability is of course stronger than that of cotton armor, but considering the difficulty of the process, the times
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